Caramel Bread Pudding with Custard

Easy, tasty bread pudding...

Ingredients (Serves 4 to 5 people)

Bread: 6 - 8 slices
Milk: 1/2 Liter
Sugar: 5 Table Spoon
Egg: 1
Custard Powder : 1 Tea Spoon
Vanilla Essence: 1/4 Tea Spoon

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Method

Whip the egg well
To this add 350ml of milk and 3 Table spoons sugar and blend well.
Cut the sides of the bread. Take the white part,chop it and add it to the milk mixture and stirr well so that the bread will become soft and dissolve well in the milk
Add vanilla essence
Heat this mixture in low flame just till it starts to boil. Then switch off the flame.
To make caramel add 1 Table Spoon of sugar to a pan and heat it till it becomes brown.
Pour this to a setting bowl.
Pour the bread milk mixture to this bowl
Steam this for around 10 to 15 minutes

Custard
Take 1 Table spoon of milk and dissolve the custard powder in it
Boil the rest of the milk with 1 Table spoon of sugar
Add the custard powder mixed milk
Boil it till it becomes a thick consistency

Keep the pudding and custard in fridge
Serve Cold
Before serving put the pudding upside down to a tray so that the caramel side will come up.

Note:
If you want to make the pudding more sweet you can increase the amount of sugar
You can also add cashew nuts, raisins as well as any dry fruits also.
You can also do the same without caramel.